No Light at the End of the Tunnel

Dr. Stanley Fish is back at it once again with trying to help fix Americas cockamamie excuse for an educational system. In his article, What Should Colleges Teach? Part 3, Fish goes on to answer three frequently asked questions, from his audience, about how to improve how writing is taught in our schools. Those three questions are,


(1) "Isn’t the mastery of forms something that should be taught in high school or earlier?"

(2) "Isn’t extensive reading the key to learning how to write?"

(3) "What would a composition course based on the method I urge look like?"


Conveniently- I just did a Metric crap ton of research projects, in my college writing course, on how organization is important in college writing and I have to say, knowing what I know now, organization is very important and it seems like all schools need to learn it. None of these schools seem to know how to teach; they need to reorganize their priories when it comes to teaching these kids writing in school.

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(1) "Isn’t the mastery of forms something that should be taught in high school or earlier?"

We can all agree with Stanley Fish that our high school educational system sucks, if not, your probably part of the problem. We have all been there and no one remembers much from high school and have probably never used anything from high school in your adult life. You know what is happening (besides the fact that they don't teach practical knowledge)? Every summer we brain dump everything that we went over in that school year, even if we don't mean to, it happens because we don't use it everyday. High schools in WV, where I'm from, are to busy cramming useless knowledge, that no one will use, down the throats of the kids, so at the end of the year they can take a State test (West Test) to see if the schools funding gets cut due to low scores. If your personal opinion doesn't reflect what I'm saying just take a look at how we rank in the world on an educational level. The high schools should be teaching more life skills so when the students go to college the professors are teaching adults instead of kids.

         The answer is simple, expect that kids from high school don't know shit. Which in reality even the smart ones don't really know anything because they haven't had the chance to live yet, but the kids going to college are spending large amounts of money. So,lining their pockets with the students money and start paying teachers what they deserve; in turn, the professors can do their jobs more efficiently.
the colleges should have the professors start from scratch. To make this possible, the "owners" of the colleges need to STOP!!!



(2)"Isn’t extensive reading the key to learning how to write?"

Are you kidding me? that's like saying every war can be solved with a nuke. Just solve every problem with one solution- it'll all work itself out some day. Why not come join us in the 21st century and realize, putting everything aside besides actual learning capabilities, that not everyone one learns the same so one solution isn't going to fix anything, we need many solutions. So how about going for a simple fix, you roll up you sleeves and actually put in a real effort to come up with ways to actually get results.


(3) "What would a composition course based on the method I urge look like?"

Not a single soul on this planet can tell you what it will look like, because we are so caught up with all this drama bull shit we having going on in our country and caught up in our old ways. We as a country have lost sight of how important our education system is,

hence the heaping pile of garbage it has turned into today.  What this country is turning into is nothing to be proud of, as the government would like you to believe. Hey, here is a free tip, maybe - just maybe - stop picking the most boring topics in the world to write about because its easy to grade. Let the kids write about something that interests them. For every time you pick a boring topic people start to hate writing.

Sorry I would of done better, but unfortunately, I'm living proof that our public education system, when it comes to writing - Sucks!